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Alright, so I built my dad an i7 rig a few weeks ago. Was running perfect when I first gave it to him, and slowly degenerated (speed-wise), until now it is hardly useable! The HDD is on almost constantly (it'd be easy to mistake it for the power light most of the time). I used the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R board, two WD 1TB Blacks in the RAID1 array (only HDDs on the machine), and the onboard controller.
When I first ran HDTach, after building the system I had speeds well over 100MB/s. Here is the current HDTach:
Obviously got problems here.
The Intel Matrix RAID manager software says that an array isn't even created, yet HDTach, the RAID BIOS, and every other piece of software shows a valid array in place. If I try to create a new RAID array in the Intel Matrix software, it locks up the software. Nothing shows an error anywhere, including the RAID BIOS (shows a valid RAID array in healthy condition).
The event log doesn't show much, except various applications timing out from a failed response. I started a checkdisk running, and then headed home, so I'm not sure on the status of it at the moment.
If it is a dead/dying drive, why would the RAID BIOS not show any errors or failed drives? If it is not a dead/dying drive, what is it? Also, is it safe to remove the RAID1 from the drives and run them individually? Will I risk losing any data if I do that?
EDIT: By the way, I'm almost positive this isn't virus-related. My dad is very careful about what he does on a computer, UAC is still enabled, and AVG is installed and running. I also took a quick look at the add/remove programs and didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
When I first ran HDTach, after building the system I had speeds well over 100MB/s. Here is the current HDTach:

Obviously got problems here.
The Intel Matrix RAID manager software says that an array isn't even created, yet HDTach, the RAID BIOS, and every other piece of software shows a valid array in place. If I try to create a new RAID array in the Intel Matrix software, it locks up the software. Nothing shows an error anywhere, including the RAID BIOS (shows a valid RAID array in healthy condition).
The event log doesn't show much, except various applications timing out from a failed response. I started a checkdisk running, and then headed home, so I'm not sure on the status of it at the moment.
If it is a dead/dying drive, why would the RAID BIOS not show any errors or failed drives? If it is not a dead/dying drive, what is it? Also, is it safe to remove the RAID1 from the drives and run them individually? Will I risk losing any data if I do that?
EDIT: By the way, I'm almost positive this isn't virus-related. My dad is very careful about what he does on a computer, UAC is still enabled, and AVG is installed and running. I also took a quick look at the add/remove programs and didn't see anything out of the ordinary.